Director : Haji Mahadi
Script : Haji Mahadi
Photographer : Wong Fun
Editing : Wong Fun
Sound : Chong Chee Liat
Music : Osman Ahmad
Actors : Nordin Ahmad Maria Menado Salmah Ibrahim J. Husny Su’ud Jr.
Production : Malay Film Productions (Shaw Bros.)
Contact :
Asian Film Archive
[email protected]
Year : 1952
Screening : 2023
DCP, b&w, 107 mn, OV malaisian ENGSUB
French electronic subtitles
Unreleased
Fatima lives with her mother and works with her as a seamstress. Demoralised by her mother’s addiction to gambling, she decides to take a job singing in a nightclub. There Fatima meets Abdullah, a businessman whose wife, Endon, is forever making fun of him and humiliating him. Abdullah quickly falls in love with Fatima and they start having an affair. However, Abdullah’s colleague is also infatuated with her, and when Endon finds out about her husband’s relationship, she plots with this colleague in order to reveal the young lovers’ affair. “Jewel in the Slum” is the first Singapore film shot by a Malaysian director. Before that, Malaysian films were made by Chinese and Indian directors. It took 3500 hours to record the digital version of the film.
